my wife had a fiat mille in brazil.  it looked like a tiny vw rabbit,
with a high revving 1L enigne.  fiat brazil seemed to have done nothing
to change the design in about 20 years.  we bounced that thing over
countless backroads all over southeast brazil, it was a rock.  it had a
very solid suspension and just kept going and going.  i would love to
import one.

aaron
'87 syncro gl

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Demarest [mailto:tim.demarest@POBOX.COM] 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 9:13 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Vngns ARE junk!(Minivans)

Wow... anyone who has torn their hair out about the reliability of the
Vanagon, picture maintaining a camper based on a ::shudder:: Fiat...
'Pandora' may be an apt name...

But it sure is cute, thanks for the pics, Ron!

At 08:54 PM 3/10/2005 -0500, The Bus Depot wrote:
> >  I think Subaru had one of the first minivans, 
> > http://www.cars101.com/oldsubpictures.html
>
> > How about a '58 Goggomobil? 
> > http://www.goggomobil.com/gallery/transporter/transporter.html
> >
> > Or perhaps you prefer the Doka? 
> > http://www.goggomobil.com/gallery/pickup/pickup.html
>
>
>Or, if you prefer a camper, the Fiat Pandora. I saw one "in person" 
>when I was in England last. Really neat. It looks like a VW Bus that 
>got shrunk in the wash. It's hard to tell the scale from the pictures, 
>but next to one of these, a VW bus looks huge!
>
>http://www.trikes.freeserve.co.uk/irom/pandora.htm
>
>- Ron Salmon
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